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If an application you need runs too slow on your Pi, it is time to start tuning. The inaugural issue of Raspberry Pi Geek looks at techniques for improving Raspberry Pi system performance. Other articles focus on cool hardware projects and innovative applications for the Raspberry Pi environment. Regular columns cover game building in Scratch, Raspberry Pi education tools, and gardening with Arduino.

Raspberry Pi users think small and dream big, imagining ingenious projects that put the unobtrusive Raspberry Pi to work on practical problems. And along the way, they learn things you don't ever discover by pointing and clicking with a smartphone or MacBook.

As the Raspberry Pi finds its way onto more and more workbenches, new opportunities arise not only to transfer data from electronic projects to a local network or the Internet but also to provide options for feedback and control.

A Raspberry Pi, an Arduino, a flow sensor, a webcam with a microphone, several Python scripts, and speech recognition tools provide an affordable health monitoring system for seniors based on water consumption.

Pulling the plug on your Pi without an orderly shutdown can corrupt the SD card. Also, many users prefer a convenient switch to clicking icons and entering shutdown commands. We show you some options for starting, stopping, and powering down.